The talkative mercenary character, also known as Wade Wilson, was created by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza. He first appeared in print in 1991.

If Reynolds does reprise his role in the film it would mark his first superhero project since “Green Lantern,” which floundered at the box office in 2011.

On Thursday, Fox also took “Assassin’s Creed” out of its Aug. 7, 2015, slot and moved its “Fantastic Four” reboot into the date from June 19. The studio did not set a new date for “Assassin’s Creed,” based on a Ubisoft videogame and starring Michael Fassbender.

Since the difference between an R rating and a pg 13 rating for fantasy material is almost always nudity and language the notion that removing those from a feature ruins it only shows how jaded the audience has become. Neither plot nor the flow of a story is harmed by such and, as has been shown, producing a PG 13 movie rather than an a R with everything else remaining the same increases audience size which increases earnings.

Tim Miller will get eaten alive by Marvel. Make no mistake he will not get to make his movie, and knowing Tim he will fight them every step of the way. Gavin Hood had more feature experience than Tim and look what happened to the first Wolverine movie. That coupled with the fact this r-rated material will be PG13, has disaster written all over it.

Sean William Scott !! Cmon that guy would be perfect–right mix of snarky wiseassery and notgiveacrap attitude. Plus he’s really funny in anything he does. Such a better pick than that pretty boy stiff Reynolds.

Is it right to say “Fox and Marvel”? My understanding is Marvel hates that Fox has some of their characters on a potentially never-ending basis, and would dearly love to see it fail. Examples: No X-Men characters (nor Spider-Man) are in their 75th Anniversary logo, and they are allegedly canceling “Fantastic Four” comic book titles before the movie comes out.

Gotta be honest: the only thing that makes me happy about this new is the involvement of Kevin Feige – he’s probably the only one here who could do Deadpool right. But the fact FOX owns this title seriously inspired zero confidence – I am completely certain they will not bother recon what happen to Wade during “XMO: W” or disfigure him in any sort of way. Anyway… we beg for it, so now…. for better or worse… we’re going to get it.

as long as its done correctly… Fox already screwed up Deadpool once by sewing his mouth shut, as well as how terribly they’ve done with the XMen & Fantastic Four series. I love the character, but dont trust the company with making a good movie.

I hope some people are joking when they are pulling for Ryan Reynolds… He’s completely unfunny and he’s box-office cancer. That test footage looked worse than the video game that came out over a year ago.

You’re in the minority on the test footage. It captures the spirit of the character, despite the budget production values and trying to cram a lot in in 2 minutes. If it’s R rated and a Feb. 2016, they obviously aren’t making it all about box office, which is good. As s popular as Deadpool is, he’s not a mainstream character.

I’m kinda tired of Reynolds flailing about, trying to latch on in anyway, to the superhero phenomena sweeping the film industry the last several years. Yes, it must be galling for Reynolds to see others (perhaps especially ‘newbies’) break out while he hasn’t in roles he maybe could’ve done but now he’s getting to the part of age (cinematically) where the bloom is off the rose. I think that this train has already left the station.

I’m kind of tired of people tring to pin the blame on the actors when there were clearly much larger problems. While he’s not as good a fit for Green Lantern and Hal Jordan as he is for Deadpool and Wade, he would have been fine with a good script and better production values. He’s usually the better part of bad movies, and GL was no exception. Warner’s obviously had no idea what they were doing and rushed it to cash in on the comic book phenomenon. Deadpool, on the other hand, has been in development for years, and is in the writing and directing hands of people with an affinity for the character, and has producers who are well aware of the fans displeasure with the character’s depiction in Origins.

I think Tom Hardy could pull off a good DeadPool. He did awesome as BANE. As much as Ryan can be the funny smartass he still looks like he would get winded by a finger flick. Tom proved he was a scrapper with Bale. I’ve seen Bale fight with people on set and I can tell you he does not pull a lot of punches and seen people with bloody noses from him. In Inception he was always being a smart ass to Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt.

troll?? far from it, sir. I’ve seen the movie. It was OK. ghost in the shell/full metal alchemist..I preferred those shows..and I’m unsure what your last comment meant..you mean a cowboy bebop movie is in production?

Most replayed anime show on American tv EVER, continuously aired on Adult Swim every year since 2001. It has a massive support, this is REALITY. And a movie`s in development whether u wanna believe it or not, troll.

First off its Kevin Feige not Keige and unless those words come out of his mouth I doubt he would be working under Fox as he is one of the soul reasons why Disney and the marvel characters will be grossing billions of dollars up to and including the year 2028 (the 14 year movie plan)…just saying

If they make a Deadpool movie WITHOUT Ryan Reynolds..it will be a TREMENDOUS mistake. If you thought the mommy porn women were screaming about Jamie Dornan over alexsander Skaarsgard or Ian Somerholder for Christian Gray..wait till they decide to use someone else for Deadpool. I, personally, will fly to Fox HE in California and give them such a WTF diatribe. Ryan Reynolds IS Deadpool!

Sorry… I know you guys love him, but PLEASE don’t bring Ryan back! He didn’t NEARLY talk enough in the past origins movie, and when he did, it just didn’t feel like Deadpool. I feel like we need someone a little more wacky here.

Lame troll is lame. Affleck couldn’t fuck up ALL superhero movies, even if he did fuck up Batman. (Unlikely, unless it’s a shitty script. Daredevil could’ve been a lot better had it been written by other people.) If one man in one bad movie could end all comic movies, then Clooney would’ve fucked everyone over back in the 90’s.